For the 2012-2013 academic year, the Algebra Seminar is organized by Clif Ealy and Annegret Paul. 

Date                               Speaker                            Topic                                                                

January 11                Gene Freudenburg               Locally Nilpotent Derivations of Small Polynomial Rings III (abstract)

January 18                Gene Freudenburg               Locally Nilpotent Derivations of Small Polynomial Rings IV

January 25                Terrell Hodge                      Hypergraphs, Path Algebras, and the Evolution of Metabolic Pathways I (abstract)

February 1                Terrell Hodge                      Hypergraphs, Path Algebras, and the Evolution of Metabolic Pathways II (abstract)

February 8             Alper Bulut                         K-loops from linear connected reductive Lie groups (abstract)

February 15              Joshua Tymkew                  On the Multiplication Groups of the Paige Loops (abstract)

February 22              James Schwass                   On the classification of non-associative finite simple Moufang loops (abstract)

March 15                  Timothy Clark                     Automorphism groups of Paige loops over perfect fields (abstract)

March 22               Alper Bulut                         K-loops from G, G a subgroup of GL(H) for H a separable Hilbert space (abstract)

March 29                  Amanda Shuman                 Planar Division Neo-Rings (abstract)

April 5                  Annegret Paul                      The exceptional groups I (abstract)

April 12              Annegret Paul                      The exceptional groups II

April 19                    Annegret Paul                  The exceptional groups III

Please direct comments and/or questions regarding the algebra seminar to annegret(dot)paul(at)wmich(dot)edu .

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